Favorite Line: "The moment you destroyed the daemon at Gembloux was the moment your destinies were set in stone. Like it or not, you are now involved in this secret war.....The war that has raged for thousands of years between heaven and hell."(p. 137)

The Secret War is a historical, paranormal book written by M.F.W. Curran. It follows two men after the battle of Waterloo on an epic journey.

Captain Will Saxon and his adopted brother, Lieutenant Kieran Harte, were in the small town of Gembloux, France, when a bizarre creature went through and killed many of the villagers. Kieran's love was killed, too. In the wreckage of one home, Saxon found a bronze pyramid and placed it in a wooden box under lock and key. He didn't know why he couldn't get rid of it; he just knew that something is wrong with the pyramid, something evil.

Saxon and Harte returned to England and almost immediately left their home and family to learn about the pyramid. Their quest for knowledge led them to the Vatican and taught them about the secret war between good and evil.

This book is 407 pages long and took me several days to read. This isn't normal for me, but I did finish the book. It's not a bad book, just one from a time period I normally don't read and about male characters (so it was harder for me to relate). I wasn't wowed by the book, but it was paranormal set in a different time period, with a different mythology.

The Secret War has vampires, demons, and the Five.

Want to know more about the Five? Read the book! (The Five are talked about over the last 50 pages of the book.)

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